Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?

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Post by 29decibel » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 12:00 AM UTC

Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?
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Re: Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?

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Post by guptaneil » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 12:20 AM UTC

It's possible to fool GitHub by changing your system clock before committing. You can make commits appear from the future too. See http://blog.metamorphium.com/2012/12/02/just-for-fun-code-fr...

Re: Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?

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Post by michaelmior » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 12:43 AM UTC

Interesting that the actual date of the commit is December 31, 1969.

Re: Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?

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Post by dereferenced » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 12:55 AM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #3

Interesting that the actual date of the commit is December 31, 1969.

Wow, almost like it's the EPOCH and there was a bug that set unixtime to 0.

Re: Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?

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Post by bjustin » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 1:07 AM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #3

Interesting that the actual date of the commit is December 31, 1969.

Sounds like the UNIX time epoch but in a timezone in America, e.g. EST (UTC-5), making it the day before.

Re: Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?

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Post by ajross » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 1:08 AM UTC

guptaneil wrote: post #2

It's possible to fool GitHub by changing your system clock before committing. You can make commits appear from the future too. See http://blog.metamorphium.com/2012/12/02/just-for-fun-code-fr...

Surely you don't have to touch the hardware. Just hand-editing a patch file before applying with git am is enough.

Re: Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?

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Post by daragh » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 1:11 AM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #3

Interesting that the actual date of the commit is December 31, 1969.

Ah yes, the day we sold our bus.